It was an incredible experience being swept along with ½ million chilled & delighted people.

Rachmaninoff Live @ Hamer Hall was a wacky ironic treat.

(unbeknownst to us, the composers work had been recorded on pianola roll, this was played by an attendant, who earnestly introduced the event to a packed house, without a microphone then disappeared into a secret hole to the side of stage. He appeared moments later to replay the role and over and over again)

The facades NGV International boasted the bodies of the tattooed population both as decoration and figurative expression.

The stately madame Flinders Street Station was jazzed up with brilliant coloured projections.

Wanted to see so much more, too crowded, too much.

Those who waited the hours and hours for entries, you deserve a knighthood.

Friday, 21 February 2014

Spent an afternoon playing with air drying modelling clay, blue coloured junk & Vipoo Srivilasa’s for his two-hour Bleach workshop, in the Melbourne Now Community Hall. The public were having a ball, but I can't help imagining what Vipoo could have done with a major space for the entire length of Melbourne Now.

NGV's makeover as a new public-friendly, youthful, cool & open gallery is exemplified by the collaborative and participatory nature of many of the galleries.Brand NGV encompasses everything as Melbourne Now spreads it's message throughout the two institutions at St Kilda Rd & Federations Square demanding to participate now!

From a surprising amount of ceramic sculpture, the stand-outs are Penny Byrne’s iProtest, a wall of small porcelain figurines symbolic of global protest movements; and Alan Constable’s table-top display of ceramic cameras, which turn machines designed to capture action into a form of still life.